Muddy Cyclocross Crusade Race 7

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Hillsboro, Ore. - THIS IS CYCLOCROSS. Cold, rain, mud, fun, and not fun. Turn up the audio for some bonus commentary.

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XC5-Barton Quick Edit

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ESTACADA, OR - We set up a live feed from the Cyclocross Crusade Race #5 yesterday at Barton Park. Here is just a taste of what we got from our vantage point in the gravel pit. Jonathan Maus kindly wipes out in front of the camera and we get to see Shannon Skerrit and Carl Decker Battle for 2nd. Get your official race results at CrossCrusade.com.

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MY Top Ten Women Crusader Costumes

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One viewer rightfully called me on doing a poor job covering the women's costumes at XC4 in Astoria. Here is a fig leaf.

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Halloween Cyclocross Crusade

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ASTORIA, Ore. - If you are looking for a slick cyclocross racing video, I can't help you here. All sorts of rules have been broken and I suppose that's part of the Halloween spirit. So... Happy Halloween!

This video was sponsored by River City Bicycles and The Cyclocross Crusade.

P.S. The Disco Trike is appears to be doing fine thanks to some the fine mechanics at the Chris King Tent.


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Halloween Cross Memorial Lap for Brett Jarolimek

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ASTORIA, Ore. - It was another amazing Halloween Cross Crusade weekend. Sadly, though, we were missing avid Crusader and cyclist Brett Jarolimek who was run down and killed on a Portland street. Friends such as Kris Schamp and Brad Ross remembered Brett by speaking about him and his passions and then leading a memorial lap.

There is a memorial ride 5PM today in Forest Park starting on Thurman Ave - more details soon.

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Wearing white t-shirts emblazoned with the words “No Blind Spots”, Cross Crusade founder Rick Potestio and race director Brad Ross said losing Brett Jarolimek was like losing “a member of the Cross Crusade family.”

Yesterday in Astoria, hundreds of cyclists took part in a silent memorial lap in Brett’s honor. The lap was led out by Brett’s friends and his Team Bike Gallery teammates, many of them weary from the road after driving to Idaho for his funeral yesterday.

Some of Brett’s friends had made copies of his race number (800) and passed them out for all of us to wear in his honor. Below the number was a winged figure on a bike and the words,
“Brett Jarolimek 1976-2007. We love you. We miss you.”

The silent lap was a somber, yet powerful way to say goodbye to Brett and to remember what his life, and his death, mean to our community.

These past two weeks have taken a toll on many of us. And, while some things will never be the same again, especially for the families and friends of those we’ve lost, the undeniable spirit of the Cross Crusade will live on.

Brett, who dressed up as Captain Underpants at the Halloween Cross race last year, would surely have smiled at the abundance of spirit on display yesterday.

See Jonathan Maus' excellent slide show of the event.

More coverage of Cross Crusade IV, Halloween in Astoria coming soon!

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Cross Crusade #2 - A Breath of Fresh Pain

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Race #2 of the world's most popular cyclecross race series, River City Bicycle's Cross Crusade. This week we are outside of North Plains at Hornning's Hideout. Thanks to all the racers and to Show Me The Pink for use of their song, "Me Plus My Friends". More excelent bike content at BikePortland.org

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Cross Crusade #1 " Now I'm Rollin' "

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PORTLAND, OR - Cameras on, wheels turning, Now I'm Rollin' with 2007 Cyclocross Crusade music-video coverage. Race number one at Alpenrose Dairy was a battle to the finish line between Shannon Skarritt and Eric Tonkin. Wendy Williams carried away 1st in the women's A-division. But that's not all! We set the race to the original tune Now I'm Rollin' AND strap a 4-lb camber to a hung-over RevPhil.

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